(July 17, 2015 at 5:57 pm)Cephus Wrote:(July 17, 2015 at 4:37 pm)Jenny A Wrote: I've voted republican many times. I mostly voted for republicans in local elections. My economic views are pretty conservative. My social views aren't. The problem with republicans nationally of late is their over the top Christian values. Scary.
The problem is, those aren't conservative social views, those are Christian social views. Conservative social views are more centrist, given the American scale.
Actually strong social conservatism is the equivalent of the predominant religion, otherwise by your standards some liberals would fit the label conservative as well.
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